What is your favorite frozen pizza?

I don’t like frozen pizza.
But they’re okay after 15 minutes in the oven. :stuck_out_tongue:

But not before i put extra cheese on it (Gouda over a grater) and some “herbes the Provence” (Oregano, basil, etc…).
The extra additions really make all the difference.

Oh, and not too long in the oven !

I’m a bit of a pizza snob too. I like my own. :slight_smile: My own crust (usually I make it gluten-free with a dough similar to Brazilian pão de queijo), sauce from slow-cooked Roma tomatoes and my own mix of spices, and homemade Italian sausage. Only thing I have to buy premade is the cheese, but I wish I had time to make that too.

I think that homemade pizza and some commercial pizzas are not unhealthy. But that’s because I always eat it with a huge salad, including my own vinaigrette style seasonings. But I digress… :slight_smile:

We have a "take and bake" pizza chain here, Papa Murphys. I don't know how much of the U.S. they cover. For not being a boutique food place the Pizza is very good. Order & pay online, drive up, pickup, take home and bake. Pricing is very good as well.

Lightbringer, you nailed it. Old NC boy here. Been to NYC one time. Hit a mom and pop pizza joint and except for the traffic ticket I got, don’t really remember much about NYC except that pizza and so many people EVERYWHERE until I got upstate. Real nice there. Reminded me of being around Salisbury where DAVIDEF posts from. A couple years ago a family opened a restaurant Herbert and made pizza like the ones in NYC. I gained weight and went broke till they closed up. My favorite frozen pizza is a cheap one from Walmart that I doctor in the way only fat guys in wheelchairs can do

Oh and sb please keep digressing!

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I love Papa Murphy's.

I used to get chicken, pineapple, spinach, and artichoke heart pizza from them.

I liked being able to choose just about all aspects of the pizza, and it was pretty cheap on certain days, too.

Unfortunately, the only somewhat close Papa Murphy's closed down.

It wasn't all that close to begin with, but now it's gone.

Chain pizza stores around here don’t cut it. We got Domino’s, Pizza The Hut, etc., but I don’t call them pizza, either. “Pizza-like substance” is as far as I’ll go.

They’re edible, might even be decent-tasting, but they’re still not pizza.

I had a lunchmate who always wanted to order-in, especially from those places, and I’d go for some on occasion. Meh. Was okay if I hadn’t had it in a long while, but not even twice in the same week for me…

Some places make dough that seems to be more based on biscuit-dough than bread-dough. It’s different at first, sometimes mistaken for good/better, but after a while, yecch.

It’d be interesting if some places would make pizza and freeze them, so you’d thaw/bake them later. Kinda like you can get White Castles in the freezer section of the supermarket and do similarly.

(Never had ’em frozen, only take-out, and while they’re really tasty, oh man do I pay my dues later and into the next day or so.)

Right-turn on red? :laughing: Yeah, ist verboten here…

It’s… different.

Okay, now that’s just wrong

Right on red is exactly what I got nailed on. Ha ha

Ok ... So if I went visiting NYC I might stop and visit with Lightbringer ,TomE or Glenn ..but after I returned home and got back on the forum if people asked i'd say ..Hmm I don't really remember them at all ... on the other hand I do remember the pizza.

Need to try peanuts on your pizza .Just sayin

DiGiorno is probably the best of the national brands; I like it better than Freschetta in the “premium” segment.
The Sicilian can be good too, but heavy, because they don’t skimp on the toppings.

Red Baron is acceptable, and they make a french bread version, but Stouffer’s is better in that regard.

Stuff like Totino’s/Jeno’s, Tony’s and Tombstone are probably what inspired the “cardboard” jokes. But every so often, I do get a craving for Pizza Rolls to relive a bit of my childhood.

Frozen pizza has come a long way, particularly after rising crust dough became a thing, which IIRC, started with DiGiorno.

I can be snobbish about pizza as well, and thoroughly enjoyed all the pizza I had in Italy last summer, but to me, it’s one of those things that has to be truly awful to not be edible. Even bad pizza can fulfill a need or craving, including frozen and Domino’s and the like.

Of the different styles, I’m not a traditionalist, and given a choice, will take others like Chicago deep dish or Detroit-style over traditional Neapolitan or NYC thin crust.

But my new favorite is Roman-style, which has a thicker, crispy crust with some chewiness. Like NYC pizza, it’s sold by the slice.

BTW, one can actually find frozen pizza in the supermarket in Italy. But it’s a minuscule section, and nowhere near the almost full aisle’s worth like the U.S.

Lately I have been consuming Newmans Own
Frozen pizza is convenient.
I prefer the local pizzeria’s, family run /owned not the chains.

In Connecticut, New Haven has the three pizzeria’s most people know of, Modern, Pepe’s and Sally’s has recently changed hands.

I haven’t tried Sally’s,

Pepes’s is good, one has been open nearby, but I don’t go there

I am not in New Haven, but when I do go there I go to Modern,

You never know who you will see when you are there Modern

It’s not good by any measure compared to the real deal but the best i found here is by far the Sodebo “Dolce pizza” line, i don’t think they are available outside France:

Even mediocre pie is ok when it first leaves the oven. Lately we have been buying pizzeria pie half baked and finishing it at home. Much better than eating it warm.

There is a brand named Screamin Sicilian. I first came across it in Texas and have also found it here in California. it’s far better than Digiorno and cheaper.

"Screamin Sicilian" has been added to my grocery list.

For frozen, the wife and I enjoy Palermo’s thin crust margherita pizza. It has a boatload of diced tomatoes in lieu of sauce, minced basil leaves, and a meh flavored mozzarella. I usually shred some fresh sharp provolone on top, and a couple fresh basil leaf chiffonade half way through, to give it better flavor.

The Digiorno Deep Dish Crispy pan pizza by the a country mile! It’s the only frozen pizza I would even considering eating! The 4 cheese version is freaking awesome, and is easily better than Pizza Hut and other shitty chains.